AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, the incoming flagship for next-gen Zen 4 processors, has been noticed boosting as much as 5.85GHz – however there are caveats to be noticed right here.
This newest Zen 4 leak comes from a Weibo (opens in new tab) person (a social media platform in China), so should be handled with extra warning than normal, and it was flagged up by HXL on Twitter (an everyday supply of {hardware} leakage, with the tweet being highlighted by VideoCardz (opens in new tab)).
Raphael 2x Durango CCD 16x Persephone CoreRyzen 9 7950X 5.7GHz (PBO/XFR 5.85GHz)5.85 vs 5.8（Intel RPL）https://t.co/BZM5fHaU5G pic.twitter.com/Uc5VDMZ0bKAugust 28, 2022
As you’ll be able to see, the leaker purportedly has a Ryzen 9 7950X that hits 5.85GHz as talked about – large quantities of salt required, in fact, and precisely what that velocity means, we’ll focus on shortly – and Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship will apparently attain 5.8GHz at prime velocity as compared.
The velocity of 5.85GHz does line up with a earlier prime velocity floated for the Zen 4 flagship by Angstronomics (a properly considered supply), and the Weibo leaker does additionally present a CPU-Z screenshot of the pre-release 7950X.
Evaluation: Whichever manner you cube it, the 7950X appears fairly sharp
Clearly that is one we must be fairly skeptical about, but when true, the 7950X being able to that form of increase is clearly fairly the eye-opener. Now, the leaker makes the purpose that the Ryzen CPU truly boosts to five.7GHz, with 5.85GHz recorded through PBO (Precision Increase Overdrive – in different phrases, the automated overclocking mode you’ll be able to swap on to get a bit extra efficiency out of your chip).
Nevertheless, as one other well-known Twitter leaker (Uzzi38 (opens in new tab)) chimes in, what’s truly occurring with this pattern 7950X is that it’s hitting 5.85GHz with no PBO wanted, however that is only a peak frequency – reached in all probability fairly briefly, right here and there. In different phrases, the quoted max increase on the field of the flagship Zen 4 chip might be decrease than this (extra just like the talked about 5.7GHz).
Actual speeds will, as ever, rely on the standard of the processor you purchase – there’s at all times some variance inside CPU fashions, generally known as the silicon lottery – however regardless of the case, AMD could have an official (default) max increase set at a suitably low stage so all chips can reliably hit it, for apparent causes.
Regardless of the case for the precise prime increase velocity for the Ryzen 9 7950X, it appears prefer it’ll be very near the identical ballpark because the Raptor Lake champ, the Core i9-13900K. As soon as once more, that is one other trace that the battle between Zen 4 and Intel’s Thirteenth-gen silicon might be a really shut one.
We’ll know much more about Ryzen 7000 tomorrow, as AMD has its launch occasion for the next-gen processors going forward through a livestream. There’s an excellent probability we’ll discover out the official rated increase velocity for the flagship 7950X at this occasion.
